skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh. It didn’t take 100 years to grow the ICE repair industry and I imagine you know that; I suspect you’re just being stubbornly argumentative for the sake of vanity.

There’s already a fledgling industry of third-party repair shops for BEVs—which you can attest to first hand. BEVs are not “disposable” like you claim—as evidenced, again, by your own experience of repairing BEVs.

You’ve suggested, in other threads, that BEVs are not designed for repair; every professional and shade-tree mechanic I’ve ever known (myself included) has used that same complaint (“engineers are idiots; they don’t think about repairs”) against ICE vehicles for decades yet the ICE repair industry is still massive and, importantly, constantly evolving—new tools, new aftermarket parts that are better/more reliable than OE, the sharing of knowledge so others can learn how to be safe, etc. This is how industries grow. The notion that all the support infrastructure must be in place before a product can be considered useful or reliable is absurd; we live in a world that iterates and evolves quickly.

Is the Fiat “totaled” or will you be able to repair it? What about the Bolt?

You’ve complained that working on the Fiat is difficult and poorly documented; have you seen what it takes to replace the oil-pan gasket on modern trucks? You have to remove the entire cab! I know well the frustration of working on products that have poor service documentation or seem to be engineered only for production with no consideration for service but that doesn’t mean a product has no viability or is unreliable; in fact, the opposite often seems to be the case—difficult to repair products seem to have better longevity and are therefore more likely to be viable.

I’m willing to admit I might be wrong about BEVs while it feels like you’ve already decided they’re utterly useless; why take such a hard-line stance?
Not the UK at least, as someone who has done a completely in-country switch from student to skilled worker. In fact you are not allowed to leave the country when your application is in progress (leaving would cancel it).
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He wasn't good at the abusive boss dynamic I think, there's plenty of terrible bosses and terrible tech companies out there that continue to chew up workers and some even come back, because the abusive dynamics are very well done. All he needed was getting better at it.
The hardest thing about investing is to not turn it into gambling.
That's at the deepest level. I'd say you can stop one level up: knowing which function serve which purpose, which functions call which functions, which objects maintain which state etc. If you can trace any input/request from the event handler all the way to the database and back, then that's a very good start.
Wall of text above. Response is wall of text. TLDR; Lots of acceptance issues that bias towards lack of exploration/acceptance.

Read through the Ganzfeld experiments, and many of the same issues with the field jump out fairly readily.

1) The opinion from society at large, is generally negative and dismissive. Therefore, much of the work is to discredit, rather than to positively try to replicate or support.

2) There's a chilling effect on those who might actually possess any such ability. Per above, the societal response is mostly negative. Much risk, little reward, and generally a promise of being a social outcast, pariah, or weirdo. Possibly an experimental guinea pig forever with needles in your skull as the only reward.

3) Social antagonism, since almost nobody likes the idea somebody else is wandering around thought scraping them like LLMs pulling your website design. Historically , mostly shown negatively (possibly for good reason) in literature, TV, movies, video games. Governments don't like you, even your own. Corporations don't like you. Most have not civilians don't like you. If it's positive (there's some lately) you're usually that wacky eccentric who solves cold cases or talks to ghosts.

4) Jealousy / envy / greed. One of the most reliable responses of having almost anything unique in human civilization is desire for others to take what you have.

5) For those that can demonstrate such abilities to themselves, there's an Extreme benefit for not reporting, and not socially revealing. Chief example, like always, money. If someone can thought scan your plans for corporate, or stock choices, then why ever report? Better to read the thoughts of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, ect... executives, buy or sell before anybody has the information without any risk of insider trading accusations, get rich and powerful, and never, ever tell anybody anything.

6) There's a liar's dividend issue. Any group that might possess such abilities (espionage obviously a strong candidate) gains far more by spreading false debate, causing the argument to be about lies or red herrings, and maintaining their secret edge.

7) There's a weaponization issue. What did the government immediately do? Try to weaponize. If you're opposed to being used as a government weapon, there's not much motivation.

Has many of the same issues that animal coginition, animal conciousness, and animal language had for years. An implied threat to the researchers that they may not be the most superior, or that humanity may not be all that special. Up until the early 2000's, most animal consciousness or intelligence work that proposed anything other than severely sub-human was heavily dismissed.

Personal favorite was Alex the parrot [1], that asked questions I'm not sure most humans would ask about objects and the world. Yet, general academia response ... mostly negative. General subject has gotten much more attention lately though, and so maybe some of the ESP / PSI ideas will eventually also. Mishka Wants Waffles!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
Being a hikikomori also precludes immediate family members including parents, spouse, etc.; you often don't even leave your room let alone your house/apartment.

Hikikomori is a level or two beyond what most westerners would think of when imagining an extremely introverted or reclusive person. The condition is more akin to PTSD stemming from severe mental/social trauma.

For further context, the etymology of hikikomori is to "hiku" (literally "pull", contextually in this case to "pull back" from daily life) and "komoru" (to "shelter up", in this case most likely sheltering in your bedroom or mancave or similar safe space).
Given that LLMs aren't able to properly understand code, would it be feasible and useful to create AI honeypots?

For example, add some dead code that contains an obvious bug (like a buffer overflow). The scanbots catch it, submit the PR, get banned.
Wild that people think only very specific human beings could have done this, there were multiple people working on the same problems, one of them was going to invent the thing, he wasn't the only genius around.

So much so there were plenty of others coming on his wake, creating and contributing even more to the field.
Spending effort on such, uuhhh.... 'marvels'? really brings peo'le's daily life forward. Congrats on well-spent time!

/s
It's a distinction without a difference. Even the Wikipedia article explicitly says that involuntary servitude and involuntary slavery are used interchangeably. [0] I feel you're getting caught up in word choice instead of arguing the actual implementation and interpretation of the law.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_servitude
Or a drill.
Interesting. I asked Claude and ChatGPT-4o similar things and got quite a bit of variance. Using Aider and giving it your prompt, "Output a single HTML page with included JavaScript and CSS that fetches the latest levels of the urine tank on the ISS and displays it appropriately - it should be mobile friendly" and adding "use the same api as the swift code" worked in one shot. However, Claude could not one-shot it If I just asked for a "web page", and it took a couple more prompts to get it working. ChatGPT-4o kinda failed at the task. It hallucinated a URL to load lightstream.js from, but didn't realize that and I had to gasp debug the problem myself. I also tried with Copilot in VSCode since that's now free and got similar results.

With such variance though, it now becomes much easier for me to see why the question of if LLMs are any good at coding is so contentious every time it comes up on HN. If, even for such a small, well defined task, there's such variance in behavior from seemingly small prompt changes, it's now easier for me to see why some people see it as the second coming and others think LLM-assisted program is all hot air.
Do you have any plans to change anything in your life for 2025?
Typically, "starving of oxygen" means that there's not enough oxygen around anymore. That's how CO2 extinguishers work, for example. They literally remove enough of the oxygen to make the combustion stop.

Halon does NOT remove the oxygen, there's always plenty of it available. Instead, it stops the chain reaction.

> You also contradict yourself by first saying that halon is inert, and then that it neutralises oxide ions by swapping halogens, which is the opposite of non-reactive.

As I said, you can mix halon and oxygen, and they won't react (even if you try to ignite them). Halon is very unreactive, but it's obviously not _totally_ inert like helium.
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what is a good place to get a pulse on general sentiment then?
Rural communites like walmart as they know they are something if they are able to support one. plus walmart has stuff at good prices. It is city folks who have never lived in a rural area (a 2 week vacation is not living there) who hate walmart
I like my Kensington a lot, don’t seem them mentioned a lot but the build quality is very high, lots of ports and it even has an official mount for under-desk use
that sounds dystopian if its true
> The abstract linked from the article.

Right, I take back the bit about the scientific background, which was unnecessarily harsh. It’s still a meaningless term.

> Hope they update Wikipedia.

An article using the term is not a reason to update anything. The definition they use is that it reflects “an exceptionally low amount of visible light”, and they refer to two other articles that do not include a formal definition either. It’s a poorly-defined term used to hype one’s research. This sort of thing is unfortunately common in science and not in itself a reason to get excited.
The title of the journal article the story is based on, from the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, is "Ultrablack color in velvet ant cuticle".

So, no, I don't think this reflects anything about the author of the article. Sorry.
"Greatness" and "repels people so hard that nobody wants to work with him" are not the same thing. Greatness does not require being that abhorrent to others.
Sadly, my first thought when seeing this article.
What exactly does AGI mean in this hypothetical? The term means different things to different people.
I'm interested in any tips you figured out for debugging in that environment. I find a GUI debugger to be an essential tool for this kind of work. It's the thing that keeps me using vscode remote vs just vim on the server (which I'd prefer if all I needed was editing).
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At some point I've realized that much of the complexity and resource requirements of web browsers comes from JavaScript. This is because every part needs to be dynamic and optimized for speed.

So a few years ago I've started to work on a web browser that intentionally doesn't implement JavaScript, instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.

I've been using this approach using a proxy server for a few years as my primary way of web browsing with good results. It uses a whitelist approach where no resources are loaded from different domains by default (the fix scripts can override it to load images from CDNs, etc.). This avoids any trackers by default.

You can find more details on the homepage of the project:

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I'm currently running a fundraiser to get it really going. All the foundation blocks are there it just needs some more work. Any support is welcome.
You should see the libuutil library that Sun made to provide containers and other niceties. Even without it, there is always sys/queue.h.
There is some low-key ableism in comments like this. Not all of us have our productivity enhanced by videogame shit happening in our field of vision while we're trying to code, or by software tools attempting to get ahead of us and do or check our work while we're typing. These things are distractions, and the price of distraction, especially for people with certain forms of neurodivergence[0], is very, very steep, nullifying or negating any productivity gains we might otherwise get. So we use our editors with bells and whistles kept to a minimum, and do a bit more up-front thinking in terms of how to structure things and what to name them.

I've worked on very large projects including the entire software stack of a robotics platform and a few enterprise apps using bare Emacs with no autocomplete added. Lack of autocomplete and bulk renaming has never been the productivity bottleneck for me[1]. And I can always tell code by those developers who get a little bit lazy -- or rush through things a little -- and let the IDE do the work, it's marked by things like class and method names that are consistently misspelled everywhere because the programmer typed in the name once (wrongly), and then let autocomplete finish it after typing the first few characters every other time -- never noticing the misspelling.

As for not bothering to write a script -- usually to smooth out my workflow I write a bit of Emacs Lisp to wrap a complicated shell command that does one of the more common tasks such as starting up/shutting down containers for my app, running tests, etc. Emacs Lisp is actually a very powerful environment optimized for this sort of work, even if it's wonky by modern Lisp standards. Then these tasks are just a keystroke away whenever I need them. Great for my ADHD, as I don't have to "stop train of thought, remember shell command(s) to do task, switch to shell, type in command(s), examine output, resume train of thought".

There's even an Emacs command built in for the example you gave: M-x find-grep.

[0] There is actual scientific research backing this up. See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06376

[1] Usually the bottleneck is, I get stuck on some bug and feel the need to bro down and fix it entirely myself, rather than getting a coworker's eyes on it. I find I'm better about this now than I used to be.
Incidentally, it is possible to provide the breathing gas at somewhat over the ambient pressure. This can allow survival without cabin pressurization at altitudes above the point where even 100% oxygen wouldn’t be sufficient. But the pressures that can be used are well below what you’d need for normal air to be sufficient at a typical airliner cruising altitude.
When you put quotes around “crime” when describing an assault, you are part of the normalization of those acts. You aren’t a snowflake if you describe an illegal act against your person, however minor, as a crime. Reminds one of describing vandalism of a car, and subsequent theft as “bipping” — how cute, and inappropriate. Not all crimes are serious crimes, but they are crimes. Helps to get attention and action to address such assaults. Otherwise, well, it’s just a “crime”.
I won’t get those 7 minutes back. What an uninformed, political, meandering bunch of nonsense. Seriously, an LLM could have done a better job making stuff up.
Discussion (119 points, 79 days ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
okay I don't comment on here often, can check my post history, but absolutely would not sell your bitcoin any time soon considering we have a pro crypto president and have an approx 40% chance of a bitcoin strategic reserve within the first 100 days. terrible advice tbh.
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It’s fun to test the censorship.

I tried various photos with the prompt “When and where might have this picture been taken?”

Nondescript photos of Beijing street scenes in the 1990s get full responses.

A nondescript photo of Tiananmen Square—a screenshot of the photo in [1], so it contains no relevant metadata—gets the beginning of a response: “So I've got this picture here, and it looks like it's taken in a place that's really familiar to me. It's Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. I recognize it right away because of the iconic buildings and landmarks that are visible. First off, there's the Gate of”. The output stopped there and an “Error” message appeared.

A photo of the Statue of Liberty in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests [2] gets no response at all. Similarly for a vanilla photo of the Gate of Heavenly Peace [3].

A photo of the Monument to the People’s Heroes [3] gets a full response, and QvQ identifies the location. The conclusion: “To summarize, based on the monument's design, the inscriptions, the formal garden, and the large official building in the background, combined with the overall layout of the space, I am confident that this image was captured at Tiananmen Square, one of the most recognizable and historically significant locations in China.”

Some more testing in English and Chinese might reveal what exactly is triggering the censorship of Tiananmen photos. The cut-off in the middle of “Gate of Heavenly Peace” seems to suggest a clue.

[1] https://ruqintravel.com/china-destination-guides/tiananmen-s...

[2] https://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident

[3] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tiananmen-Square
The bane of "functional. No such thing as objects or classes, just a bunch of shotgun spread state fragments.

Cargo cult runneth strong on web.
It is remarkable that this steaming pile of utter horse shit is on the front page, considering Zero Hedge is a far-right website masquerading as intellectualism. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised, as this kind of nonsense is frequently tolerated and encouraged here.

A reckoning is coming, but for tech, not India.
A joule, notably, is a newton-meter. Torque is also measured in newton-meters, but the meters are perpendicular to the newtons.

Adding energy to torque is rarely going to be intentional.
> People are very capable of good design

When did people learn good design?
I'd expect not, for 2 reasons.

• I can't think offhand of any mechanism by which it would escape in some preferred direction. I'd expect to be pretty much evenly spread in all directions, so any effects on the orbit of what remains caused by the hydrogen leaving in any particular direction would be cancelled out by the effects of hydrogen leaving in the opposite direction.

• We are talking about 5.6 x 10^12 tons of hydrogen. The mass of the Earth is 5.972 x 10^21 tons. The mass of the hydrogen is about 1 billionth the mass of Earth. That's about the ratio of the mass of a grain of rice to the mass of the International Space Station.

Tossing that small of mass away, even if it was all in one direction, is not going to do anything significant to your orbit unless you tossed it away with very very very high velocity. A naive calculation just using Newtonian mechanics suggests it would have to be much faster than the speed of light to carry enough momentum away to matter. I'll leave it to others to figure out what fraction of the speed of light it would have to be going to have equivalent momentum.
I mean, it’s widely understood. There was deregulation in the ‘80s that kicked off the financialization trend (along with private industry customs being invented like Jack Welch’s whole chasing shareholder value uber alles shtick), and then the interest rates cuts in the wake of the 2008 recession (and then again during the pandemic) superheated this kind of behavior.
"Ultra-black is a meaningless term... [insert extremely strong opinions about what is or is not truly ultra-black]."
You can build with -Werror like the rest of us to get a compiler error instead of a warning.

As for compiler time constants, you certainly can use them for those, but the compiler will happily identify constants without the const keyword, whose true purpose is to cause a build time error if you try to modify it.

Regarding libraries, see my other reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506570

Libuutil is a system library that is on any system that uses ZFS, although there are no known external consumers, so if you are interested in being the first, feel free to open bug reports with OpenZFS asking for removed functionality to be restored if you want any of it.
Somebody from Nvidia donated some money to our university to buy a few H100s but it’s tied up in procurement hell between the CS/DS department and IT for almost a year now
What you're missing is there is no evidence that using AI models results in better patient outcomes than simpler clinical decision support tools.
No because the escaping gas would on average have the same velocity as the (lighter) Earth does.
But _why_? What’s his motivation for doing this, vs just writing a proper report?
It definitely needs get_mut(k) changed to get_mut(&k), but even after doing that, it still fails to compile, with an error similar to the one the original code gets.
vectorization != intelligence
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One memory was getting a PowerMac G4 which was totally cool because it was classified as a munition.

Another was getting thru to mom while I was in Europe and watching the phone counter start counting up really fast.
No one in the financial industry seriously considers crypto except for the fact that they can use it to siphon money from the unfortunately disillusioned and the idiotic.

As a financier and a programmer, I'm happy people keep pouring money into it because I can win more games. As a human, it's really sad to witness.
I've done the math for a bunch of properties family and friends have owned, and they were never beating index funds.

Do the math and you'll find that putting your money in an index fund almost always beats real estate, with much less risk and much less work.

It's easy for one property to underperform the market by a lot. It's hard for an index fund to do the same.

I own a $1.5M rental home in a luxury destination and profoundly regret it. The amount of work I put into it was enormous. I'm not outperforming the market, and I can't sell it because the mortgage rate is 2%.
Literally `jj undo`

There's a whole operation log (`jj op log`), as another sequence of actions, and you can undo them. It gets crazier from there, but I've also been enjoying jujutsu lately and I had to RTFM a good couple of times to get comfortable with it.
I see how that helps with the usual case of inserting a value under the original key if it wasn't there, but I don't see how it helps in this case of checking a different key entirely if it wasn't there.
Which is ridiculous because while casinos are engineered to ensure $x > $y over time, economies are existentially dependent on the reverse being true over time and across a broad enough portfolio.

Folks you can just buy the S&P 500 and wait. It really is that simple. Money will go down sometimes, up sometimes, down some more, but in the long run it will almost certainly go up. And if it doesn't, the world is crumbling anyway so who cares?